Debate Quote by Michel de Montaigne

All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be…

— William Pepper

“A court of law is not constituted to establish the truth.”

— P.D. James

“True means without variation, but finding something that doesn't vary feels impossible. Instead, to establish the truth, we need to confront messes without the…

— Abby Covert

The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment to discover…

— Herbert Spencer

The resurrection of Jesus Christ was necessary to establish the truth of his mission and put the stamp of all-conquering power on his gospel.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible,…

— Walt Whitman

Look at Mann's reading habits, his explicit comments on Nietzsche, and his copy of Birth of Tragedy, and it starts to seem doubtful that…

— Philip Kitcher

The world is deceitful; her end is doubtful, her conclusion is horrible, her judge terrible, and her judgment is intolerable.

— Francis Quarles

It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so…

— James Russell Lowell

A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or…

— Mark Twain

We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over…

— Charles Caleb Colton

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton